A Private plane with 10 people, 5 American, landed in Italy...and were turned away.
https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/private-jet-with-us-tourists-rejected-at-italys-borders.html
So if your wondering if they might just wave you through...doesn't look like it.
Well shame on them for thinking they could circumvent the current policies, regardless of their mode of transport. I'm glad to see they were given the boot.
hey hey folks
LOL
next time you and your pilot needs to read policies, rules about quarantine and who's allowed.
"entitlement and priviledge" they feel bestowed with. as CJean says glad they got booted out, maybe they'll be forbidden to enter italy.
aloha
Clueless rich US Americans or entitled rich US Americans... we will never know.
But what if I come in by mega yacht? That’s ok, right?
(Kidding if course. If I had even a dinky yacht, I’d already be in the Mediterranean).
They should have used this--https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/news/features/history/f-117.html-- and landed in the middle of the night.
I'm not giving the passengers a pass but I'm curious why the pilot wasn't aware of the restrictions?
Anyone recognize what the plane is? Does it really have the range to fly from Colorado to Italy non-stop? How did they get clearance to go to Italy?
The only smiling face in this is the fuel dealer at the airport. He made an unexpected sale.
Maybe they thought that Cagliari, on the southern tip of Sardinia, isn't really Italy? 😉
If the pilot doesn't fly, she doesn't get paid.
I bet they thought they'd be able to sneak in with the others in their party who were from countries acceptable to the EU.
Hawker-Siddely 900XP, range is around 3200 miles, so no, it didn't fly nonstop to Italy from Denver.
This sounds like a repeat of an earlier very similar story from the beginning of lockdowns in April. That plane was going to France after stopping in a London airport.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/private-jet-turned-back-cannes-france/index.html
The organizer of this trip was Croatian and "He told authorities he had "a lot of money" and wanted "to just pay a fine or whatever and go to Cannes" They refused.
I guess it shows money isn't everything.
.... why the pilot wasn't aware of the restrictions?
Not the pilot's job, unless he owned the jet. He's just the driver.
How did they get clearance to go to Italy?
The same way any jet gets clearance- they file a flight plan for an airport that accepts that type/size of aircraft. Aircraft aren't banned. Flights go between Europe and the US every day.
It's nice to see that the rich folks got a rude awakening, and a reminder that even money won't allow them to flaunt the rules. That was undoubtedly an expensive lesson for them (but I'm sure they can afford it).
I'm surprised to tell you the truth. I thought we lived in a world where someone who can afford to do that doesn't have to follow the rules the rest of us have to follow.
Hawker-Siddely 900XP, range is around 3200 miles, so no, it didn't fly nonstop to Italy from Denver.
However, do not assume the plane in the photo is the plane they flew, that appears to be a stock photo of "private plane", despite what the movies do, they do not roll out a red carpet for every arrival.
Any of the later Gulfstream models (G600, G650, G700) can do that route with fuel to spare, especially with a 10 passenger load.
I do not fault the Pilot, they just file a flight plan, EU airspace is not restricted, just entry.
Well, isn't a radiologist, a medical person, in that exempted group for quarantine in Hawaii?
Sorry, I meant that as a sarcastic response knowing the exemption for medical persons is only for those coming to Hawaii to work in the hospitals and clinics there, not someone who just happens to have a place there and wants to travel.
I am just overly frustrated that many of us are trying to do the right thing to prevent the spread of the disease as best we can, yet there are those who seem to think rules don't apply to them because they are somehow special.
". . . there are those who seem to think rules don't apply to them because they are somehow special. . . "
As someone so eloquently put it recently,
"That's been the story of life"
The story continues but now we get word from the passengers:
https://onemileatatime.com/americans-private-jet-europe-rejected/
Thanks for posting Frank II. All I can say, from reading the article, is that whoever was the spokesman for the group sounds like an ignorant, self entitled jerk.
There were a total of 10 (sic) passengers onboard the flight:
There were six adults, including two Americans, two Brits, a New Zealander, and an Italian
There were five children, including three Americans and two Germans
Apart from the interesting math, its an eclectic mix of nationalities.
Clueless rich US Americans or entitled rich US Americans... we will
never know.
I guess we do know. Entitled!
...and where were the parents of the German kids?
Sometimes I think that people who whine that things aren't "fair" don't really know what the definitions of fair are. They seem to think that fair means consistent with what they want.
For future reference, here's what Merriam Webster lists as definitions of fair. They lean more toward following the rules than anything else.
And here's what the Cambridge Dictionary says about fair.
The guy who wants to sue, apparently has no clue.
The guy who wants to sue, apparently has no clue.
Except that the "guy" is female and was the sole Italian passenger! A few paragraphs lifted from this article and google-translated from Italian:
Federica Fanari, a 37-year-old entrepreneur, is one of 6 adult
passengers who arrived from the US by private jet and sent back: "My
friends had to evaluate the purchase of some companies, they no longer
want to set foot on the island.... I have already spoken to my lawyer.Federica Fanari, a 37-year-old entrepreneur in the e-commerce sector
of Oristano, residing for a year in Germany: she is the only Sardinian
passenger of the private jet, which took off from Eagle in Colorado
and landed yesterday morning at Elmas airport.But who was aboard that jet? Fanari, of course. And then? "A New
Zealander, two Brits, two Americans and five children, three Americans
and two with a German passport, are my children," explains Fanari. The
reason for the trip? "I wanted to see my family, and friends had to
evaluate the purchase of some companies and a house. After this, they
told me that they will never return to Sardinia, "says the
entrepreneur.She is very angry, Federica Fanari: “We have been treated as if we
were criminals, it is not fair. Also, who will reimburse all the
anticipated expenses and money? I'm talking about the double flight,
about the money for the cars that were waiting for us outside the
airport and the house. I have to go to my lawyer to find out what can
be done. I want to ask for damages ".
Well, she should have verified the restrictions before boarding the plane.
Once again, someone with money who thinks restrictions don't apply to them, so get the lawyers involved to spend more money and by the time it all gets settled it won't matter anyway.
True, she should have.
Just noting that the person first to scream "Lawsuit!" isn't one of the two Americans more directly responsible for the mess.
I haven't looked it up but is someone with a UK or New Zealand passport allowed into Italy/Sardinia directly after visiting the U.S. or are they just subject to a 14-day quarantine? I believe I also read that foreigners allowed into Sardinia must submit a "Sardegna Sicura" registration form in advance of the trip? It looks like this:
https://sus.regione.sardegna.it/sus/covid19/regimbarco/init?lang=en
The business purpose of the trip would have been more believable without 5 kids on the plane.
Based on the list here Council agrees to start lifting travel restrictions for residents of some third countries , the Brits weren't supposed to be allowed in, either.
That all may be irrelevant and the big issue for the others beyond that may be the fact that they all were in the USA and left from there.
Considering the timing, it does seem like someone was trying to sneak them in. And that someone was looking for a big payday. Follow the money.
